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It is widely believed that the first people to arrive in New Zealand came from Polynesia. Most historians believe that they landed in New Zealand over 700 years ago. Although they were originally from many different countries, these settlers learned to live together and, eventually, formed their own distinct culture known as ‘Māori.’ Māori have their own language, traditions, and culture.
Follow this link to read a short story about a famous man in Māori mythology – Maui. On your blog, post three facts that you learned about this interesting man. What other stories have you heard about Maui?
Maui
I found out that Maui’s canoe became the south Island and the North island is the big fish he caught when he snuck into the boat. When he did he catch the most biggest fish. When they got back Maui’s brothers cut off mountains of fish and that’s what became the mountains of the North island.
Maui, realized that there was no more fire in the world. So he went to the goddess of fire Mahuika, but tricks her wanting to know we're she gets it from. She was furious when she found out. Maui only barely made it out. When Maui had found out the secret of fire he soon after went fishing with Maui’s sister Hina her husband Irawaru. They refuse and go back to shore when their lines get tangled up. Maui, turns Irawaru into a dog and Hina throws herself into the sea but doesn’t die.
Maui went seeking for immortality for human beings and goes out with his friends following him from behind. Once he gets there he goes into the woman's body telling his friends to not laugh. But once Maui is inside the body, one of his friends, the Fantail, couldn’t hold it in and bursts out laughing. The woman claps her legs and cuts Maui in half.
Activity two :Setting sail
The first settlers to come to New Zealand must have been really brave! They had to leave their original homes and sail thousands of miles across the ocean on a special boat called a ‘waka’ to reach New Zealand.
Imagine that you were on board one of the wakas. On your blog, write a short letter to a friend telling them about your voyage to New Zealand. In the letter be sure to tell them how you feel about moving to a new country. If it was me, I would have felt really nervous…
Dear Mika,
We have been going fine sailing in our waka, although we had some obstacles that came in our way we stood tall. I feel very scared at this point, writing a letter to you. We have been sailing for over two weeks now but I see no island. Don’t worry we have enough food and water, but I really hope that we get there soon knowing that anything could happen to us. The splashing waves aside our boat makes me nervous. Everyone helps to push the boat to the right direction which is really tiring but making sure we're all going in the same direction. I feel scared and excited. I will send you a letter again once we have got onto land.
From Mia
Bonus Activity: Waka Ama
Watch this shortvideo of a Waka Ama race. On your blog tell us whether you would like to be in a Waka Ama race one day. Why or why not?
I would like to but no, because I do like team sports but imagined you fell into the water, because I’m not that great at swimming I would be scared because they go quiet fast.
On Thursday we went to the A&P show. After we did we had to do some activities based on the A&P show. I only got to finish four out of eight but this is my work. You will probably need to go into present mode/ make it bigger, when reading the information. I would like some feedback on what I could change.
I am flying in plane, I can see shipwrecks, sand and submarines, broken ships rusted, like a desert which was once a sea but got drenched. Rubbing my eyes I look about, I feel hopeless. I see a lighthouse flashing the lights about.
I look around it I can see a cloud, and not just an ordinary cloud, a rain cloud. All hope was lost expect for that rain cloud. Now we had hope, suddenly I heard the crackling of the motor, I hear my plane breaking down as the plane slowly falls down and down, I hear a loud thump and everything went pitch black.
I hear a voice of a another person I looked up and I saw another girl, she had a worried face on her. I opened my eyes fully as I saw the face turn into a smile. Wondering I looked around I saw walls, although there was some moss growing around it, I asked her “where am I…” She replied “in the lighthouse, you’ll be safe now” I shook my head in replying meaning no I need to get the rain cloud, “I saw your plans and your plane, I will help you knowing that this was once a sea” she said.
“ firstly, can you fix the plane?” “umm” she mumbled “Perhaps... but you’re going to have to help me because I don’t have the tools for it, but I’m sure there’s some in your plane, right?” I nodded. “well then let’s get started!” she said, I hopped up and realizing how many scratches I had gotten when I had crashed.
I looked outside, I said “maybe we could start there” I pointed to my plane propeller she nodded “well then we might have to search for some replacements too. We went down the cold stairs and started to search for things. I started of by looking at some submarines finding lot’s of preparalos in some of the boxes. Hurring I gave them to her she looked inside the boxes and she took out a large propeller. She fixed it on with some tools and in some time the plane was fixed again.
I started the engine as it crackled at first clearing into a nice engine sound. I asked her to hop and she did. We took of flying straight at the cloud went right through it and rain started to pour down, now that was only the start. I looked about I took out a machine known as the rainmaker or more like, ocean maker. I switched it on, and I flowing swirl of water came to rise. I tossed it off the plane.
Gradually wildlife came, water rose, and ships floated, filling caverns with water as squid appeared. Rust disappeared like glitter and all was back, sea spread, seaweed grew!, it was all a dream come true, rocks were shells and sand was gold. But all that caught my eye was a black man and his shadow disappear.
The writing Process:
This is the video that we used for the start of our story, but we only used the very start of the video.
Next we did a Brainstorm with the whole class these are some photos.
After we made a plan on what we were going to write about and then we wrote our whole story after I had written it I reread it but I didn't quite have time to put more descriptive language.
I would like some feedback on making it flow better but making sure it is still has a sudden feeling.
This is my presentation for uru Manukas 2018 logo. People from each school will post a logo and this is my logo. I made these logos on google drawing, sumo paint, and sketch pad. I would like some feedback on my logos.
This week in Rimu we explored gamefroot. Gamefroot is a place where you can create your own game to show you learning, goals and more. I tried out gamefroot, I was laughing and smiling but inside I was a little frustrated and that’s what I find funny. It took me a while to finish the background because I tried to erase things but I ended up erasing the background. You could pick different characters and blocks. There were also weapons and props. After you have finished making your game press the Game button and you can play the game you have made. You can also put moving blocks which I don’t know how to do yet but hope I find out soon. You can also put speech in. when the player steps on it speech comes up on the bottom right of your screen. I found this site really fun hope you try it too!
This week in Rimu we had to make a DLO about adding fractions in my Maths group. I found these questions hard, but once I got the hang of it it was pretty easy.
Today on Cybersmart we learned about Netiquette. Netiquette is two words, Internet and Etiquette mixed together. Etiquette means that using your manners in the right way and it's talking clear. I used a Mindup to show it. Hope you enjoy!
On Monday I finally got to start Election Inquiry. Election Inquiry was all about Parties. We got into Party groups last week and I was in the National Party. I found it quite fun to do research then write things down. I had to write about Health care and what National wants to do with it. I also wrote their Achievements on Health. After that I asked if I could write about their Economy, they let me so I started of by going to their achievements for Economy and wrote about two sentences so far. I wrote the Health things on our document. I made a new slide to put for Economy. I found out that 200,000 jobs were created. Also I found out that they have supplied free doctor visits for under 13 and a check up before starting school. The thing that annoyed me was everyone kept asking me “why do you have that mask on” or “why do you have that thing on” because I had to wear a mask because I had been sick.
This week William Pike stopped by at our school. He talked to us about lot’s of things. The year seven and eights showed him what they did for their William Pike challenge.
This week was quite busy for me because on Thursday I had to be on the mat for the whole morning and I couldn’t get thing done so I had to work really fast and especially type really fast. We’ve started to add lot’s of notes and I had to do lot’s of notes because I had to be on the mat for the whole morning.
But sadly we didn’t have Mark and kelsey (our computer teachers) because we were at netball zones last week so we didn’t get to meet kelsey and work with her.
This week I went to Netball Zones on Wednesday. We played five games and we lost all of them except for one. Two of the games we played was in the rain. I was relieved that I was a sub on the first game in the rain, but the next one I had to play as attack, it was even harder to play because I had never been Attack before. After the last game it was twelve and we went into the shelter and tried to make a penguin pod with a blanket, but sadly it didn’t work out that well. People started to leave and I was eating my lunch. We decided to try the penguin pod again this time 3 people sat on one side and two people sat on the other side sitting on the balls. Finally the bus came and we went back to school.
This week is the first week of term 3 I was excited to go to school again. This week we had to make our own timetable and make a persuasive paragraph. I had mine from 8:30 to 4:00 (see my earlier blog post). We also did blog commenting for Cybersmart to look at some comments on blogs. Some of them actually started a conversation. But some had mistakes and more. There was also some that had just one word comments. This week was really busy doing lot’s of things and catching up and more. I thought this week was a really busy week.
In Rimu we had to make our own timetable. This is my timetable that I made. It will tell you the things good about my timetable at the end slide. What do you think about it?
This week we did rapped potatos in tin foil to bake for the afternoon after lunch. First we got some tim foil and put the potato inside, then we asked one of the older boys to cut a cross in the potato for the cheese and butter. Then we wrap it up in the tin foil tight and put it in a tray. After that we did some matariki activities. We colored in some hands that we traced of our hands that we cut out. There were lot’s of other activities too but I didn’t have time to do any of the other ones there. After that we, the seniors did kapa haka in front of the juniors. After that we had baked potatoes you could choose whether to have just cheese or cheese and butter and I chose cheese and butter. They were hot and yummy and the butter was melted and the cheese was sort of melted but it was still yummy.
This week we still are doing testing so we are still doing our timetable. We did cybersmart and we had to do a profile. We had to try to use other tools to make our profile. I stayed on the mat to get some ideas, us group on the floor most of us used thinglink. If you don;t know what thinglink is, it’s a place where you can add links pictures videos and more. You make little dot’s that if you put your mouse of it it will come up with some words that you wrote down. You can also change your background. You can also make your background on a google drawing then screenshot it then it is in your drive so you can upload it onto thinglink. Some of us used our name for our background but some people used their faces, but some other people used something else. We can also change the color of the dot and change it to different things too. I had a fun week and it was pretty normal week for me.
This week we had to manage yourself and do our own timetable and set everything up by ourself. you needed to also make two goals and reflect on them by coloring in the boxes, red, orange, or green. Also this week we did something called lions serious maths. We have to pretend to be a tourist from Ireland, England, Scotland, or Wales. The rules is that you have 10,000 dollars to go to New Zealand and you have to go to two places everyday in New Zealand and you have to visit every lions rugby game. You don't need to go to places if there is a game though. You also have to pay for visa passport and many other things. Me and Jedi are partners, if you have a partner you can either only get one of each and have 10,000 dollars or you can have 20,000 dollars, we picked the 20,000 dollars but we need two of each of everything. We also need to eat three meals a day. To help us we can look at this sheet that tells you how much some of the transport accommodation and some other stuff too.
This week I did my running in the zones and I was very proud. I thought that I did very well and did my best. After the Zones I was really tired I felt really heavy. There were lot’s of people and adults there. All the schools had flags of what kind of school they are. There was lot’s of blues and reds, and some other colors too. I found it quite hard to run because I was so little and I couldn’t get through the people.
We are learning to create a positive digital footprint.
We often share personal information when we are online. The people we share with could be our friends and family or people we don't know. We need to make smart decisions about what personal information we share online.
On the first week of the term we have been doing sound trap, sound trap is a place where you make your own music and make sounds. I found it quite hard to do soundtrap because it was quite confusing with lot’s of sounds.
Also this week we did socal study and we had to draw New Zealand and then we needed to put all the places that we told to and write them down on the the New Zealand that we drew.
At Maths this week we needed to measure the walls of our classrooms and we needed to break down the measurements into centimeters and millimeters. Then after that we need to draw the floor plan of our classroom on our maths book, once we finished all of that we need to measure all the windows and doors, we also needed to measure all the sticky out walls. After finished all of that now we need to make the classroom but smaller.
This term in Rimu I have learned how to sail, how the census years work, and also I learned how to use studyladder. A challenge was for me this term was sailing because I found it really hard to control the boat and I nearly tipped over in the boat. also I found challenging was the team working activity at camp. an easy thing was this term was the reading because lot's of the questions were quiet easy to do and I didn't get stuck on the questions too much. I went really well with classmates Mika and Abby because we worked together well in class and we helped each other out. I have shown my YMS qualities this term because I have been helping each other in class.
This week in Rimu we did Art and we had to copy our favourite artwork on a piece of paper and then we had to get glue and some tissue paper and we had to make some slushy mixture and then we had to glue it to the parts that we wanted them to stick out. This week we also did wild eyes we started doing our rainbow again from last week. Our one turned out really good and now we just need to paint the background blue. everything else was quite normal this week.
Hi my name is Mia from Yaldhurst school, a couple weeks ago we went to camp at Living springs from year 4 to year 6. We did lot's of activities and games, like archery, animal survival, bouldering, swimming, and some group challenge activities. We also went to the farm yard to have a look at animals.
I hope you enjoy my photo story of camp.
This week in Rimu we have been working on our wild eyes on Tuesday me, Nikita, Bridget, made a junk artists but we didn’t have time to glue it. In the afternoon it was got ripped and somebody had taken all the beads out and ruined our artwork. After school we had to find all the beads and look for some even in the rubbish bin. Me Bridget and Nikita were very disappointed.
Also this week we did our NZ artists. First we had to find three famous NZ artists. ( artwork like paintings ) Then we had to pick a artists and one of there paintings that was your favourite. After that you had to copy that picture and then you had to copy it digitally.
I thought this week that I had quite a normal week
This week we got to meet Jamie Duff, a sprint car racer he bought his sprint car in this huge truck and his other tractor thing. We got stickers and signatures on our stickers, Then we got to look around the truck and his other truck and his sprint car. We saw his logo on the front and we started laughing, but I told everybody that there was a bigger one at the back and we laughed even more. After, we got to go to the truck and take pictures in front of it. After that we got take photos with the stickers and then we got to do a reflection on Jamie Duff.
This week in Rimu we did camp booklets and talking about camp. We had a hole list of stuff that we had to bring and it was really long because we have to bring lot’s things just in case we get cold or we get hot. This week was quite cold but we still got into the pool at lunchtime swim.This week also on thursday we went swimming but only about ten of us because most people didn’t want to go into the pool because it was quite cold. But I still went in and it was freezing at first but afterwards it wasn’t that bad.
This week in Rimu class we had a lot of swimming play and skills. It is really fun because you get to have lunchtime swim and then you have your skills for about 10 minutes and then you get to have more free time. This week we had a challenge and we had to get into a group of somebody from each year group. We had 11 people in our group and we had to get across from the end of the little field then across to the other side with 4 tyres and a piece of wood but you can’t touch the floor and the wood can’t touch the floor. I had a really good time this week in Rimu.
This week in Rimu we were supposed to go to camp from Wednesday to Friday but because of the Port hill fire we couldn’t go to camp at living springs.
So This week It was our focus was swimming. We did swimming sports. I went in widths and some of my other friends did lengths, this week it got really hot so it was a awesome day to go swimming in lunch breaks.
This week I really enjoyed swimming on hot days.
This week for a challenge we did the straw challenge and you had to make a bridge out of straws and tape. We found that challenge quite hard we will get the scores today.
This is a photo of us swimming after swimming sports having free time in the pool and when we were making the bridge.
Hi my name is Mia and it was my first week in Rimu. It was a really weird week for me. I met the new teachers and students in my class, the reason it was weird is that I was mostly in Japan on the first three days of school and I missed everything on those three days! Next week I thought I could go but unfortunately, I was sick on wednesday and I didn't go to school on Tuesday because I only just so I couldn't go to school on that day either. The next day I finally came to school. My friends were waiting at the gate for me and was so excited to see me again and I was excited too! My friends were showing me around like crazy! one of my friend Abby took my books and put them in the right place which I didn't even knew where they are now, since I didn't know where to put your books! My other friends Maddison-judith and Nikita were showing me around. So that's why I had a weird week.
This is a video of me that I did of when I came to school again.
